V. poor quality video in Movie Maker

[pfgpowell]

Hi, I have been using Macs but recently bought a secondhand Dell
(Optiflex GX260) for various reasons, but mainly so my children could
play a few PC games they had acquired. Because XP comes with Movie
Maker, I hitched up my camcorder (Sony TRV460) and downloaded a minute
or two of footage. And the quality once it is acquired by my PC is
TERRIBLE. Now why should that be? Would it have something to do with
the graphics card which came with the Dell? When I have previously
edited video on a Mac, the quality of ther footage is almost as good as
that when played on the camcorder. So why is Windows footage so much
worse?To see just how bad the quality is, take a lookl at

where I have uploaded it to
Youtube. Please someone tell me. Patrick.

 

[philo]

Hi, I have been using Macs but recently bought a secondhand Dell
(Optiflex GX260) for various reasons, but mainly so my children could
play a few PC games they had acquired. Because XP comes with Movie
Maker, I hitched up my camcorder (Sony TRV460) and downloaded a minute
or two of footage. And the quality once it is acquired by my PC is
TERRIBLE. Now why should that be? Would it have something to do with
the graphics card which came with the Dell? When I have previously
edited video on a Mac, the quality of ther footage is almost as good as
that when played on the camcorder. So why is Windows footage so much
worse?To see just how bad the quality is, take a lookl at

where I have uploaded it to
Youtube. Please someone tell me. Patrick.

Although XP's movie maker is just a very basic program...
your results are certainly a lot worse than I'd expect...

You must have the resolution set too low

 

[Kenny]

I have used MM with both analogue and digital camcorders and results are
usually good, yours are very pixellated but I couldn't say why.
Would suggest posting question in:
There are some very knowledgable folk there.
Post system specs along with the problem.

 

[Kenny]

Sorry, that link should be:

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Kenny Cargill

I have used MM with both analogue and digital camcorders and results are
usually good, yours are very pixellated but I couldn't say why.
Would suggest posting question in:
There are some very knowledgable folk there.
Post system specs along with the problem.